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Feldpausch Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BINDER PARK ZOO | $20,000 |
| BRONSON HEALTH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SERENITY VILLAGE OF BARRY COUNTY | $10,000 |
| CHARITABLE UNION | $10,000 |
| SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF BATTLE CREEK & KALAMAZOO REGION | $10,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN | $7,500 |
| OTSEGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $6,000 |
| GREEN GABLE HAVEN | $5,000 |
| KALAMAZOO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| HAND2HAND | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $5,000 |
| KIDS N STUFF MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| ST ROSE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THORNAPPLE ARTS COUNCIL | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
27 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN5× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +92%- HHAND2HAND6× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +75%
- GGGREEN GABLES HAVEN5× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INCone grant, 2020 · $10k
- BCBARRY COUNTY UNITED WAYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +61%
Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Centergraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +41%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide compassionate in-home skilled nursing care and supportive resources for those affected by cancer and related illnesses in southwest michigan.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
United way of southwest michigan works in berrien, cass, and van buren counties to sustain a united community where everyone contributes, belongs, and thrives.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us the most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
Lead sheboygan county's efforts to increase the food security of its residents by distributing healthy emergency food and fostering innovative partnerships.
Together, we advance the health of our communities.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Barry Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Starr Commonwealth. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Bronson Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds BATTLE CREEK HOMELESS SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds HAND2HAND ↗
- Who funds GREEN GABLES HAVEN ↗
- Who funds BARRY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE PLACE ↗
- Who funds STARR COMMONWEALTH ↗
- Who funds Brass Band of Battle Creek ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds CHARITABLE UNION ↗
- Who funds Binder Park Zoological Society Inc ↗
- Who funds SERENITY VILLAGE OF BARRY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds BARRY COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds SPROUT URBAN FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan ↗
- Who funds HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds BATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JENISON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: WK Kellogg Foundation · Battle Creek Community Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Miller Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Preston S and Barbara J Parish Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Feldpausch Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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